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also what do I script so I dont have to create so many different tables in order to use the rate system? I am planning to use it for several differnet things, and I don't want to have to create an individual table for every single thing I am planning to rate. how do I make it so I don't need a table for each thing i want to rate?

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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta name="description" content="The Garage is a network designed to give bands exposure and distribution among network points, as well as cheap studio fees for all Garage studios.">
</head>

<td height="30" bgcolor="#E9E9E9">
<p><font size="2" face="Tahoma">- Selkin is planning to release
their first album between 2003 and 2004!</font></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#E9E9E9"> <font size="2" face="Tahoma">- Selkin has two
mp3's available for free download at their site.</font> </td>
</tr>
</table>

Just reduce the size of the table width, and more importantly the col width of the comment form text box. thats whats throwing it off.

As for the off rating, I cant see why thats occuring. has it always done this? it would be easier if you could tell me when it was working, and what changes your implemented which caused it to go wrong.

i want to create individual cookies for each band's rating. I realized when I did one cookie for all of them, someone can only vote for one band and not fora ny others. since I dont have the IDs working properly, I can't get this working correctly. so how do I fix it so that each band's rating has their individual cookies, and how do I fix it so the ids work properly?

the ids arent working because I can post a rating on one band's rating, and it will appear on another band's rating as well.

What I would do, is for each band page, have an automatically assigned id to each page. I.e. the selkin page has the id 25.

Then, when you set the cookie, you set the cookie the value 25, or whatever value of the band they have just rated. You would have to put the ids either into the database or pass them in the query string.

Then when you check for the cookie, you dont check for the COOKIE, you check for the value of THAT band within the 1 cookie. you dont want to be creating 10 cookies if you they rate 10 bands for example.

really you should try and give each band an id and use this..i dont see what problem this could cause you, if a little bit of pain in the posterior.

Also I dont understand your database schema so can;t get a clear idea of how its working.

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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta name="description" content="The Garage is a network designed to give bands exposure and distribution among network points, as well as cheap studio fees for all Garage studios.">
</head>

<td height="30" bgcolor="#E9E9E9">
<p><font size="2" face="Tahoma">- Selkin is planning to release
their first album between 2003 and 2004!</font></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#E9E9E9"> <font size="2" face="Tahoma">- Selkin has two
mp3's available for free download at their site.</font> </td>
</tr>
</table>

after the attempt to add cookies and use ids, a few parts of the pages arent working properly. i figfured if I got the ids and cookies to work properly, then whats not working will be fixed, or it will be easier to fix them.